Henrietta Maria Bowdler

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Standard Name: Bowdler, Henrietta Maria
Birth Name: Henrietta Maria Bowdler
Nickname: Harriet
HMB , who published mainly in the early nineteenth century, was an editor, conduct-book writer, theological writer, poet, and novelist. She was also the originator of the project for rendering Shakespeare inoffensive to delicate ears, which is more generally connected with the name of her brother Thomas .
Title-page of Henrietta Maria Bowdler's anonymous "Sermons on the Doctrines and Duties of Christianity", fourth edition, 1803. A contemporary has added the author's name: "Mrs Harriet Bowdler of Bath." This copy bears the ownership stamp of a theological seminary, and a librarian has repeated Bowdler's full name.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Smith
Among undated poems Bowdler prints another imitation of Ossian and a translation from the German of Friedrich von Matthisson .
Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell.
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In 1803 ES translated a poem by Gessner in response to William Sotheby
Textual Features Elizabeth Smith
The oddly-structured Fragments interleaves letters, poems, and meditations by ES with narrative and commentary by Henrietta Maria Bowdler and letters from other people.
Friends, Associates Mary Tighe
Before she left London, MT met there her fellow Irish poet Tom Moore . He subsequently visited her in Dublin and complimented her in verse. She exchanged poems with Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre) ...
Textual Features Susanna Watts
SW takes steps to prevent the cause of slavery entirely dominating her work, which, she announces, it will be devoted to the cause of suffering animals as well as to that of suffering men.
Watts, Susanna. The Humming Bird. I. Cockshaw.
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